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'another Dr Compton' Londoner, #DigiEd, (gen)AI, #Assessment & Feedback , #ungrading, #HE (and #spurs) #COYS https://mcompton.uk/
Our initial reflections on the findings from the first national Pre‑arrival Academic Questionnaire (PAQ) pilot led by Michelle Morgan @it-se.bsky.social, UEL in collaboration with Advance HE and JISC, and funded by the Office for Students. cc @profwgarnham.bsky.social and Prof Debbie Holley.
Higher Education Policy Institute@hepi-news.bsky.social · last mo.New Post: WEEKEND READING: Stop inducting students into a system that doesn’t fit them www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/07/05/w...
This hits hard: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
My mother was forced to give me up for adoption. But when we finally met decades later, it was far from a fairytale ending
Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV
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Is there a better rhyme in all of music than City High’s: “It was all over him y’all, my boyfriend the criminal” ?
Parliament square already filling with red faced people draped in upside-down, chinese made Union flags. They think they love this country but all they love is a fabricated vision of villages, bobbies and miss bloody marple. They actually hate Britain. I say get out of my city you sad losers
Wordle 1,778 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I wish I could navigate actual life as smoothly
The latest @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social #SEDAEdDevs Magazine is out NOW >> www.seda.ac.uk/seda-publish... #EdDev #EdTech #GenAI #HigherEducation please share 🙏 (cc @emmakeddev.bsky.social)
When you work in HE and speak with a working class accent you get used to people’s facial tics the first time they hear you speak. I’ll tell you what though, it’s been eye opening at my new work where it hasn’t happened once and is unlikely to
Dr Ian McCormick@wokestudies.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Based only on their accent, lower-working-class people were judged to be on average 14% less intelligent, 4% less friendly and 5% less trustworthy than upper-middle-class people." #language #HigherEd #AcademicSky #edchat #DEI #linguistics www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...
Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.
This is a letter my Nan received from Ted Heath. My mum found it in my grandad’s stuff. Seems she sent him a complimentary Christmas card. I’m willing to forgive the class treachery as Heath was probably to the left of Starmer anyway.
Really enjoyed your talk today on Academic Language and Compassionate Assessment @kelwebbdavies.bsky.social! 👏👏🌟 Thanks @martc.bsky.social for flagging it in your blog
Amongst a host of dodgy qualities in the restaurant we were in last night, the logic of the many poster montages eluded me. The political one included Ghengis and Imran khan and Deng Xiaoping
In only condemning Iranian attacks we become complicit in the terror being inflicted on Iranian people . It’s war built on the hubris of two men but the workd durrly knows this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...
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“I’m not going try to sugar coat it…” * gets out bag of sugar in studio*
a woman in a checkered shirt says way too much sugar in a kitchen
ALT: a woman in a checkered shirt says way too much sugar in a kitchen
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Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5mo agoBREAKING: “I don’t think we should over interpret this result” says the governments Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander Heaven help us
BREAKING: “I don’t think we should over interpret this result” says the governments Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander Heaven help us
Never again can Labour say that a Green vote is a wasted vote. You don't have to compromise and tacitly endorse Labour's concessions to the far-right anywhere. This is so so huge!
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️@leftiestats.bsky.social · 5mo ago‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory 🟢 Grn: 41% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 25% (-25) 🔵 Con: 2% (-6) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-2) Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024) ‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election
Nationally, Labour is losing twice as many voters to Greens and Lib Dems as they are to Reform. (John Curtice on BBC)
BREAKING: Green Party win Gorton and Denton by-election!
You got to feel for Matt Goodwin. Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp... You what now? Lurching to the right ISN’T good for Labour?
Green Party takes Gorton and Denton from Labour in first ever Westminster by-election win
The Greens' Hannah Spencer wins the Manchester seat, ahead of Reform UK in second and Labour in third.
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Reform have nothing to offer but divisive hate. Blaming migrants and communities struggling to get by. Hannah Spencer understands Manchester, she knows the value of work and will actually get things done. Thursday - it's Greens Vs Reform. Hope Vs Hate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This election is an appeal for trust, a battle against fear and a straight fight between Greens and Reform | Hannah Spencer
Thursday’s stakes could not be higher. We know Labour has failed and Farage’s Reform is poisonous. I want to win Gorton and Denton as a fresh start, says Hannah Spencer, the Green party candidate in t...
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Reform UK suspends Matt Goodwin by-election campaign manager over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
Reform UK suspends by-election campaign activist over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Mitula, Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside, has been assisting Matt Goodwin's Gorton and Denton by-election campaign
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Reform candidate attacks elites while being paid to fly around the world to speak with them
Reform candidate attacks elites while flying around the world to speak with them
In a speech after being announced as Reform UK’s candidate for Gorton and Denton, Mr Goodwin had bragged he was 'not part of the establishment', and has repeatedly criticised the 'elite class'
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